Middlesex Sessions:
General Orders of the Court
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19th May 1743 - 22nd February 1753

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Image 168 of 5595th December 1745


Substantial and Workmanlike manner assoon as conveniently
may be together with Some Repairs wanting to be done to the
Office of Mr. John Kely< no role > one of the Clerks of the Indictments in
the Court yard of Hicks Hall , And the Committee is desired
to See that the said Repairs be done in a Substantial and
Workmanlike manner, and to Certifie an Account thereof
to the Court to the end that the Court may give Direction
for payment of the Moneys which Shall be due for the Same.

By adjornment on Thursday the fifth Day of December
1745.

Order appointing a
Committee to examine
Concerning fees taken by
the Keeper of the House
of Correction at Clerkenwell
Etc and for the Keeper to
attend and produce a
Table of his fees before
the Committee. }

Information being given unto this Court that Several
Prisoners committed to the House of Correction at Clerkenwell
in this County for Misdemeanors have been detained there
after the Court of Sessions hath discharged them for non
payment of Fees alledged to be due from them to hath Stead
Notwithstanding Such Prisoners by reason of their great
poverty are not able to pay the Same. And that Some
other Irregularities have been committed in the Said
Prison It is Ordered by this Court that it be And it is
hereby recommended and referred unto Thomas Lane< no role >
John Milner< no role > James Clitherow< no role > Thomas Burdus< no role > Robert
Dennett Roberts Tothill John Tothill< no role > John Elliott< no role > This name instance is in set 3963.
Richard Ricards< no role > Charles Egerton< no role > Philip Dyot Thomas
Moore George Errington< no role > Francis Hole< no role > William Withers< no role >
and John Lawton< no role > Esquires Justices of the Peace of this County
and Such other Justices of the Peace as shall think fit to be
present or any three or more of them as a Committee to
meet together at Hicks Hall in St. John Street in the
Said County on Tuesday Tuesday the Seventh Day of January
next at ten of the Clock in the Forenoon. And to inquire into
the truth of the Premisses, and to examine what fees are due
or are usually received by the Keeper of the Said House of
Correction of Prisoners committed thither either by Justices of
the Peace or by the Court of Sessions, And for that purpose
Mr. Henry Wallbanck< no role > Keeper of the said Prison is




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